The Red Bellied Piranha or Red Piranha is a species of Piranha native to South America. It is found in the Amazon river. Red Piranhas are omnivorous that feed on insects, worms, crustaceans, and fish. This is a social fish that lives in large groups called schools. If you look closely you can see a white line in the middle of it's body going from the gill cavity to the tail. This is called the lateral line. That's how they are able to swim in groups of hundreds, and if you get a large school they make great aquarium fish.
Red Bellied Piranhas have a reddish tinted belly when full grown and the juveniles are a silver color with black spots. Red Bellies grow to a maximum of 13 in, and weight of 7.7 pounds. The rest of the body is gray with silver-flecked scales. Red Bellied Piranha are typically found in white water rivers, such as the Amazon River Basin. There are some in lakes and streams too. A lot of the time they live in flooded forest like the ones in the Brazilian Amazon during the rainy season.
Female Piranhas can lay around 5000 eggs! The eggs are layed in newly submerged vegetation. The weeds are made into a nest by the males. This is the reason way Piranhas attack People because the males protect the eggs until they hatch.
Red Bellied Piranhas have a reddish tinted belly when full grown and the juveniles are a silver color with black spots. Red Bellies grow to a maximum of 13 in, and weight of 7.7 pounds. The rest of the body is gray with silver-flecked scales. Red Bellied Piranha are typically found in white water rivers, such as the Amazon River Basin. There are some in lakes and streams too. A lot of the time they live in flooded forest like the ones in the Brazilian Amazon during the rainy season.
Female Piranhas can lay around 5000 eggs! The eggs are layed in newly submerged vegetation. The weeds are made into a nest by the males. This is the reason way Piranhas attack People because the males protect the eggs until they hatch.